Voting Rights Act: Scotus majority's partisan wrecking - NY Times

Voting Rights Act: Scotus majority's partisan wrecking - NY Times

In Callais v. Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered useless the 1965 voting rights act.  The law was the product of a century of struggle for African American voting rights..  But the court majority acts like that is ancient history of no current relevance.  Of course logically, in god's eyes, race is irrelevant.  But in the eyes of Americans race matters.

I agree with Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the three dissenters:

At the first stage of this judicial project to destroy the Voting Rights Act, the Court maintained that Section 5 was no longer needed because in recent decades “African-Americans attained political office in record numbers.” Shelby County, 570 U. S., at 553; see id., at 549. At this last stage, the Court’s gutting of Section 2 puts that achievement in peril. I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent